SpaceX blasts back into the rocket trucking business

And then sticks the landing for good measure after pausing a day for hydraulic glitch

Elon Musk's rocket trucking business, SpaceX, is rolling on the celestial highway again after successfully launching a Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket, then landing the rocket's first stage back on terra firma.

By the 19th, no further anomalies were detected and the Falcon 9 ascended without incident. The Dragon 9 payload is now en route to the International Space Station, carrying supplies and the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE III) instrument that will peer at Earth’s high atmosphere to monitor gases there.

As is SpaceX's wont, the company also managed to land the Falcon 9's first stage, as shown in the video below.

Dragon will now take a couple of days to reach the ISS and looks to be in fine shape, as its solar arrays deployed as planned.

The launch is also notable for having used Kennedy Space Center's LC-39A facility for the first time. Used for numerous Space Shuttle and Apollo launches, the site's been refurbished by SpaceX and has become its third launch site, after another Kennedy pad and its California facility. SpaceX is also building a facility in the Boca Chica area of South Texas.